02230cam a2200337 i 4500 423743190 TxAuBib 20200420120000.0 200217s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2019038613 9780062671189 hardcover $28.99 0062671189 hardcover $28.99 (OCoLC)1140871377 TxAuBib rda Erdrich, Louise. The Night Watchman. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] ℗2020. 451 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera. In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence. 20200420. Indians of North America North Dakota Fiction. Indians of North America Government relations Fiction. Ojibwa Indians Fiction. Historical fiction. TXMLR